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“They know that conflict drives passion, so they amplify our differences and toughe their rhetoric'.”

— a CNN journalist

“we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions…

— Barack Obama

“What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we’re fearful, we become divided. When…

— Keith Ellison

“communities come together in the face of conflict and disagreement.”

— Martin Lindstrom

“It is our contention, to be explored later in more detail, that political defiance, or nonviolent struggle, is the most powerful means available to…

— Gene Sharp

“The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around…

— Raquel Cepeda

“We celebrate the beauty and reason of the individual, and resist the coercion of the state and the tyranny of the majority. We laugh…

— Robert Peate

“Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice, and the…

— Sunday Adelaja

There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each…

— Rick Perlstein

“What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.”

— Heraclitus

“We've built a world too complicated and dangerous for our quarrelsome natures to manage.”

— Ian McEwan

“We live in dramatic times. Violent confrontations are erupting in all parts of the world. Instinctively we feel that it does not have to…

— Dominique De Menil